US II - Midterm Review
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US II - Midterm Review

Civil Rights
Civil Rights
Turn of 20th Century
Progressive Reform
Women’s Rights:
· suffrage, gain the right to vote
· Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
· · Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul
· 19th Amendment- 1920

_Immigration
· Issues for immigrants
o different immigrant groups were treated differently, why?
o Old Immigrants v. New Immigrants—what were the differences, why?
o Nativists
§ motives?
o Chinese Exclusion Act and the Gentlemen’s Agreement (with Japan)
o Issues for Latino immigrants—
§ unfair pay
§ migrant work
§ Cesar Chavez, as civil rights leaders for Latinos
African-Americans’ Rights
· discrimination
· segregation
· Jim Crow Laws
· Plessy v. Ferguson (Supreme Court case)
“Separate but Equal” Decision 1896
· Brown v. Board of Education(Supreme Court case) 1954

· Civil Rights leaders & events

· Martin Luther King, Jr.
· Rosa Parks
. Thurgood Marshall
· Montgomery Bus Boycott
· Emmett Till’s murder
· Little Rock 9
· March on Washington
· strategies to force local, state, and federal
governments to guarantee equal rights regardless of race:
Methods of civil disobedience:
o boycotts
o sit-ins
o ‘freedom rides’
o marches
o registering to vote
o getting arrested on purpose
· successes of the Civil Rights Movement:
o desegregated schools
o March on Washington
o Civil Rights Act of 1964
o Voting Rights Act of 1965
Rise of Big Business
o capitalism - Definition Adam
Laissez-Faire
Smith’s Laws of Laissez -Faire Economics -Govt with little or NO regulations
o monopolies/trusts
o John D. Rockefeller-Standard Oil
o Andrew Carnegie - US Steel
o differences in social classes - growth of a middle class "Gospel of Wealth"
o Social Darwinism
o labor unions
o Industrialization
o rise of oil, steel, railroads
o mass production, increase in factories
o urbanization
§ poverty in cities
§ settlement houses to help immigrants - Jane Addams
§ poor sanitation and housing
Progressives -Working for change -improving society
o muckrakers -
§ Jacob Riis -housing
§ Ida Tarbell -trust busting
§ Upton Sinclair - meatpacking conditions & potentially poisonous meat products (not to mention disgusting)
§ Lincoln Steffens -corrupt city governments
Florence Kelley -child labor & women’s working conditions
Legislative Reforms -
§ laws to improve working conditions, consumer safety, child labor, end government corruption, improving voting practices - initiatives, referendum, recall elections, secret ballots

See your Progressive Reform Sheet
America Becomes a World Power
World War I


US Imperialism – Hawaii, Alaska?
Spheres of Influence – China & US wanting Open Door Policy China, Japan,
Spanish –American War – US acquired – Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico & Guantanamo Bay Naval Base – Cuba, US became protectorate of Cuba, Protectorate, annexation,

Panama Canal – Teddy Roosevelt’s Latin American policy – keep all European powers out of Western Hemisphere(Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine)

Militarism,

Alliances
Imperialism

Nationalism

Assassination - Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip- Serbian Nationalist


Allied Powers- France, Gr. Britain & all her colonies, Russia until 1917 revolution, Italy,

US an Allied Power - after 1917 stopped being “neutral”,

Central Powers: Germany, Austria- Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria,
Trenches & U-Boats, Propaganda, Lusitania(Br ship not American)

US Efforts in War & at Home – Liberty Bonds, Victory Gardens, Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays – giving up comforts for the war effort,
Spanish Flu,
Woodrow Wilson’s - Treaty of Versailles
Only Germans to pay reparations! – German War Guilt – Germany lost colonies & land,
League of Nations- US did not join the League – didn’t want to have to send troops out for conflicts nor did US want troops here if a conflict arose in US! Congress did not ratify Treaty of Versailles